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Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

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mlglenn's review against another edition

4.5

4.5 rounded up. I think this is my new favorite of the Bromance Book Club!!

Friends to lovers is such an elite trope and I love how being best friends was never something that changed even as Alexis and Noah became something more. Their friendship stayed super important to both of them, which is absolutely adorable. I spent a lot of the book as frustrated with Alexis’ new family as Noah but I still respect the way she handled it with grace - truly not how everyone would have reacted! Can’t wait for more meddling book club antics in the next book!

POV: dual third person omniscient

You can expect: friends to lovers, he falls first, sexual assault survivors and healing, business owner FMC, hacker/computer security business owner MMC, newly discovered family, secrets, meddling friend group.

Rep: anxiety, kidney failure, transplant, grief

Audio rec?: yes, always supportive of Andrew Eiden

Spice: 2/5

CW: past sexual assault/harassment, nearby business owner with victim blaming mentality, discussion of kidney failure and kidney transplant (non graphic), death of a parent in the military, death of a parent from cancer.

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books_after_bedtime's review against another edition

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emotional funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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alannacoward's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this series because it was all over the book community. I was dying to read this series. I loved the first two and was excited to read this one when it was focusing on Alexis. It was adorable and good banter, but at the same time, made me want to bawl my eyes out.

This book has two points of view. The first one is Alexis Carlisie. She owns a cat café called ToeBeans and she has shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef’s sexual harassment. Her café has become a place where people of sexual assault can come forward and try to heal. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they’re sisters. She is unsure what to do, so she turns to the only man she trusts – her best friend, Noah Logan. He is the second point of view and he is a computer genius who has left his rebellious teenager hacker years in the past to become a computer security expert. Now he only uses his old skills for the right cause. But Noah’s got a secret – he is madly in love with Alexis. When she asks for his help, he wonders if the timing will ever be right to confess his crush. Noah’s pals in The Bromance Book Club are more than willing to share their beloved manuals to help him go from buddy to boyfriend. But he must decide if telling the truth is worth risking the best friendship he’s ever had.

I love these characters and this friendship group. I haven’t read a lot of the trope being he falls first. I love Noah, I love the broken nerd with daddy issues. I just love broken characters who want to treat women better. I loved that Lyssa wrote a book where a victim of sexual assault gets her happy ending and learns to trust people again. The broken family conflict nearly killed me especially with how Alexis was just trying to run her café and do yoga classes and get ready for a wedding and instead she gets ambushed with a sister who wants her kidney. I love this friendship group and love how no matter these boys don’t give up on each other even when they all act like complete tools. I love the Russian and I hope to God he gets his own book because I want to know what the hell is going on with his wife.

The only thing that I didn’t like was the miscommunication and third act breakup. They personally drive me nuts in books and yet it keeps happening in this series.

Overall, I liked how fast-paced this book was and this was one of the few friends-to-lovers I liked, and I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

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shelbyl's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved it! Yes it’s a romance novel, yes there are some open door scenes, but this book had a lot of heart and some serious topics. I love how this author deals with both light and heavy topics and weaves in a cute story. Great series!

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whitneyonline's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A little heavy-handed on the forgiveness propaganda, but otherwise another solid entry from Adams. I love how she sets up her next book(s) so that we have at least a little foundational knowledge of and relationship with the characters and they don't feel like complete strangers to us and each other, thus undermining the believability of their own love stories.

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roussette31's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I love this series so much, and this book was no exception. I was in a reading slump when I started it though and I took a long break from reading it. Friends to lovers is definitely not my favorite trope, but there was so much tension between Alexis and Noah that I still loved it. It was definitely very emotional, just like the other books of this series were, but also quite funny, and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

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alittlebitofhann's review

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emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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booksareoxygen's review

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I was hesitant to read the second book in this series, but when I saw the description of this one, the third in the series, I decided to take a chance. Well, this one had more parallel plot lines than the previous novel, the first book focused exclusively on the pair of individuals, I was intrigued because I got to see more of the community and ecosystem, in which all of these characters live. I also snorted exactly twice at one of the other characters commentary, so I will be picking up the book that focuses on that particular character soon! 3.5/5

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mrsmishler's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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